Transcript NESTA presentation

How can a university be globally
competitive and locally engaged:
the Newcastle experience.
John Goddard
Emeritus Professor of Regional Development Studies
And
NESTA Visiting Fellow
Newcastle University
Lesson 1
• Use international institutions (e.g. EU,
OECD) experience, expertise and status
to shape the national agenda
Lesson 2
• Seize windows of policy opportunity and
build on them
University/region value added
U N IV E R S IT Y
R E G IO N
T
S
R
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C
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T = T e a c h in g
R = R e s e a rc h
S = S e r v ic e t o t h e c o m m u n it y
S = S k ills
I = I n n o v a t io n
C = C u lt u r e a n d c o m m u n it y
V a lu e a d d e d u n iv e r s it y m a n a g e m e n t p r o c e s s e s
V a lu e a d d e d r e g io n a l m a n a g e m e n t p r o c e s s e s
U n iv e r s it y / r e g io n a l d y n a m ic in t e r f a c e
Lesson 3
• Continue bottom up partnership building
and insert these into top down policy
initiatives
OECD report
• Higher Education and Regions: Globally
Competitive and Locally Engaged
• Sponsored by Education AND Territorial
Governance Divisions
The regionally engaged multi-modal and
multi-scalar university
(after Arbo and Benneworth)
‘Global’
National
policy
TDP
Inward
investors
IND
‘Regional’
S&T
HE
LM
Skills
Innovation
Academic
kudos
‘Science
park
Hospital
Culture
village
Culture
‘National’
Lesson 4
• Use outsiders to peer review local
partnerships
5 Roles of Universities in
Innovation
(National Endowment for Science, Technology and
the Arts, UK)
1. Driving forward the research frontier
2. Giving people the skills for innovation
3. Knowledge exchange and people transfer
4. A node in an international network of
knowledge
5. Providing regional leadership
– specialisation: focussing on strengths and
the needs of regions
Lesson 5
• Universities need access to innovation
policy research capacity if they are to
realise their potential
Newcastle University:
Key Business Drivers
• Maintaining and enhancing position as a
research intensive University against
strong national and international
competition for staff, students and
research grants and contracts
• Marketisation of higher education
– Research Assessment Exercise
– Top up fees, bursaries and scholarships
– Local wage bargaining
University Mission
“To be a world-class research intensive
University, to deliver teaching of the
highest quality and to play a leading role in
the economic, social and cultural
development of the North East of England”
Business
Support
Knowledge
Transfer
Research
Regeneration
Property
Knowledge
Economy
NU Business
Education
Skills
Policy
Global
National
Newcastle University Business and Science City
Lesson 6
• Build a common language that reveals
mutual interest
Capital of Culture Bid –
University Cultural Quarter
• Creating spaces (buildings) where cultural
activities can take place
• Creating places where the university and
the community can come together
• Combining university and non-university
activities in a collectively managed zone or
quarter
Lesson 7
• Ensure that engagement is not confined to
science and technology
Transforming Health: International
Centre for Life
• Institute of Human Genetics (University of
Newcastle)
• NHS Genetics Testing Service
• Bioscience Centre - serviced incubator units
• Life Knowledge Park
• Life! Visitor attraction (Secret of Life Theatre,
Big Brain Show, Life on the Edge ride)
• Education resource centre
• Politics, Ethics and Life Science Research
Institutes
Institute for Policy Ethics and Life
Science
• To enhance public participation in debates around new
developments in genetics and life science
• To undertake research on the ethical, legal and social
consequences for ordinary people in their everyday life
• To use these public sources and research data to engage
in an informed critical and evaluative development with
scientists and policy makers.
Key Assets: leading edge science, social science and
strong regional identity
Lesson 8
• Develop new ideas in a laboratory and
then roll out across the institution and
partnership
Lesson 9
• Identify and support champions who can
become boundary spanning role models
Lesson 10
• Develop people who fill boundary
spanning roles at all levels, working with
local and national partners
Continue the Work of Building the
Bridge between HEIs and Regions
Higher Education
Drivers
Societal
Education
relevant to
work
LLL, Sector Skills, prof
quals, employability,
workforce education
(Relevance)
Translation of
knowledge
into
innovation
(Applications)
Research
Teaching
Academic
education
World class
academic
Research
base
Academic
DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University
Some agendas/expectations
of HE
Societal
Widening
Participation/access
Economic Growth
Sector Skills
Business
Competitiveness
Graduate Employability
Employer Engagement
and HE Targets
Professional Quals
Knowledge Transfer
IP exploitation/spinout
companies
Regional Development
and regeneration
Life Long Learning
Workforce Development
Teaching
Research
Foundation degrees
Academic Research
Graduates
Post Graduates
International research
base
Higher Education Targets
Discipline advancement
Learning programmes
New knowledge
Intellectual Capital
World Class Knowledge
Base
Academic
DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University,
A UK Research Intensive
University?
Societal/employer
Research
Teaching
Academic
DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University
Post 1992 University?
Societal
Research
Teaching
Academic
DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University,
A Mixed Economy University?
Societal
Research
Teaching
Academic
DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University,